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Andrés Murcia

14+ years building software, leading teams, shipping products. Operator and founder.

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SUMMARY

Founder & engineer with 14+ years building products at scale. Rails since 2012. Led teams from six to eighty-nine. Built ERPs, scaled mobility infrastructure across LATAM, and ran technology at multiple startups. Now running an experiment in AI-led product development, building LexPro, Amplifica, and Brainz Lab inside a holding called Brainz. Not AI-assisted. AI leading.

EXPERIENCE
Dec 2024 – Present
Brainz, LLC

Founder

Founded the company and built the holding. One person, an AI team, a portfolio of products, each run by the operator who built it.

  • 01 Brainz founded Dec 2024; Lab v1 shipped Oct 2025
  • 02 Amplifica and Lumina live, LexPro built inside Brainz
  • 03 Sondea licensed and billing to an external client
  • 04 Brainz Lab: 18-service, self-hosted backbone
2022 – 2025
Picap, LATAM

Head of Engineering

Mobility platform across Latin America. Scaled engineering from ~20 to 89 people; the platform to millions of monthly rides.

  • 01 DigitalOcean Deploy London (speaker)
  • 02 DigitalOcean Customer Story + NYSE Investor Day
  • 03 MongoDB Success Story
  • 04 1M+ monthly rides · 99.9% uptime
2020 – 2021
Symplifica

CTO

First CTO seat. HR tech for the Colombian market. Built the engineering organization and the architecture from zero.

  • 01 First CTO title
  • 02 Built a 23-engineer team
  • 03 MINTIC podcast appearance
2016 – 2021
ROEPA International

Director of IT

Built ROEPA's digital infrastructure across France and Spain. The relationship is still active 10 years later as Rails + DigitalOcean maintenance.

  • 01 ERP systems + microservices across countries
  • 02 Devatax: 5 tax software products for Colombia (2018–2019)
  • 03 Distributed-team leadership
CAPABILITIES
Languages & frameworks

Ruby · Rails · Hotwire · JavaScript · Tailwind · Python

Databases

PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Elasticsearch

Cloud & infrastructure

DigitalOcean · Hetzner · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Kamal

Practices

Hexagonal architecture · Blue-green deploys · Feature flags · Shape Up

AI

Claude Code · Anthropic API · MCP servers · agent orchestration

Specialties

Team leadership · Scaling · Architecture · Real-time systems · Turnarounds

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Technical leadership, sales-motion installs, AI-led product development, or just a conversation. I read every email.

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